Mayor of Mostar Mr. Ljubo Bešlić participated at the Conference on IPA Adriatic Cross Border Cooperation Programme, in the organisation of Office of Abruzzo Region, held in Brussels.

At the Conference there was a discussion on technical preparation and implementation of the program, the EU's cohesion and pre-accession policies, migration, the role of European regional legislative assemblies in EU territorial cooperation after 2020, the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Area (EUSAIR) and on fraud and irregularities in the management of EU structural funds.

The conference was also attended by Paola Di Salvatore, Managing Authority of IPA Adriatic Program, Nikola Dobroslavić, President of the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion and Prime Ministar of Dubrovnik-Neretva Canton, and Slađan Bevanda, Minister of Internal Affaires of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton.